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(Nigeria) Rivers State Government on Monday, declared curfew with immediate effect. The curfew is the last from 7 p.m., to 6 p.m., till further notice.

(Nigeria) The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has set up a panel to probe the Progressives Congress, APC, complaints against the Presidential and National Assembly elections in Rivers State.

Legitimate representatives of self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics in east Ukraine will set their own date for local elections, the parliamentary speaker of self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic said on Monday.

The Russian government will prepare an assignment to examine an opportunity of offering a natural gas discount to Ukraine as soon as possible, minister of energy Alexander Novak said on Monday.

Saudi-led naval forces imposed a blockade on Yemen's ports as coalition airstrikes on Monday repelled an advance on the southern port city of Aden by Shiite rebels and forces loyal to a former president.

(Nigeria) A number of women, the elderly and children who were locked up by fleeing terrorists in Gwoza, Borno State, have been freed by troops as cordon and search along with mopping up operations continue in the town. 

(Nigeria) The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in Edo State, has won majority of the National Assembly seats in Saturday's Presidential and National Assembly elections in the state.

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has won in the just concluded Presidential and National Assembly elections in Rivers State.

The Chairman of the Rivers State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Mr Felix Obuah, has congratulated all the three senatorial and 12 House of Representatives candidates, who contested Saturday’s election on the platform of the party on their overwhelming victory at the polls.

(Nigeria) The Inspector-General of Police, IG, Mr Suleiman Abba, has  condemned the invasion on Monday of a Federal High Court sitting in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, during which a court process was disrupted, and two female lawyers assaulted.

(Nigeria) Another Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, office in Konshisha Local Government Area of Benue State, was on Monday set ablaze by hoodlums. 

(Nigeria) The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC to cancel the results of seven states in last Saturday's Presidential and National Assembly elections over what it termed, alleged electoral malpractices.

Amnesty International has launched a new campaign for the release of Congolese youth human rights activists held incommunicado in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC, for 15 days. 

(Nigeria) The Minister of National Planning, Dr Suleiman Abubakar, has said there were irregularities in the conduct of the Presidential and National Assembly elections in Kwara State. Abubakar, who said this during an interview with newsmen in Ilorin, described the exercise as ‘a tragedy.’